Trump Campaign Noncompete Agreements May Break Multiple Laws

You may have seen that the Trump campaign is imposing confidentiality and noncompete agreements on its staffers that are quite broad. Here...

Massachusetts Legislators Fail To Protect Citizens Against Abusive Noncompetes. Again

For a second year in a row, Massachusetts legislators introduced legislation to ban or severely limit the use of noncompete agreements in th...

11th Circuit Rules Courts Must Consider Hardship to Employee in Deciding on Florida Noncompete Injunction

Florida's noncompete statute is, no doubt, harsh on employees and extremely favorable to employers. However, the 11th Circuit Court of A...

Senator Franken Bill To Ban Noncompetes For Low Wage Workers Would Be A Good Start

After the Jimmy John's noncompete for sandwich maker debacle , some members of Congress asked the FTC and the DOL to investigate the san...

How To End Sandwich Noncompetes?: Tie Them To CEO Pay

Problem 1: CEO Pay Gap CEO pay has been in the news a lot lately, and for good reason. CEOs make, on average, about 300 times what their ave...

Backlash To Sandwich Noncompetes: Three States Propose Bills To Limit, Ban Noncompetes

After the world woke up and discovered a "secret" everyone who practices employment law already knew, that noncompete agreements a...

States With Pro-Employee Laws: Consideration For Noncompete Can't Be Continued Employment

Florida, like some other states, allow unscrupulous employers to present noncompete agreements to existing employees and say, "Sign or ...